Member
μέλοςStrong’s G3196melos
Appears in 24 verses of the New Testament
In short
Melos is the Greek word usually translated “members” and “member”. It appears in 24 verses of the New Testament.
“And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”
Meaning
Usually translated “members” and “member”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- members 28
- member 5
- the members 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Corinthians 10
- Romans 6
- James 3
- Matthew 2
- Ephesians 2
- Colossians 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 5:30And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
- Romans 6:13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
- Romans 6:19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
- Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
- Romans 7:23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
- Romans 12:4For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
Greek dictionary
μέλος melos · member
μέλος, -ους, τό [in LXX chiefly for נֵתַח ;] a member, limb of the body: 1Co.12:14 12:19 12:26 Eph.4:16 (WH, mg.), Jas.3:5; pl. (as always in cl.), τὰ μ. : Mat.5:29-30, Rom.6:13, 19 7:5, 23 12:4, 1Co.12:12 ff, Col.3:5, Jas.3:6 4:1. Metaphorical, πόρνης, 1Co.6:15; of Christians, μ. ἀλλήλων, Rom.12:5, Eph.4:25; Χριστοῦ, 1Co.6:15; σώματος Χριστοῦ, 1Co.12:27, Eph.5:30.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “member” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MEM'BER, noun
[Latin membrum.]
- A limb of animal bodies, as a leg, an arm, an ear, a finger, that is, a subordinate part of the main body.
- A part of a discourse, or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.
- In architecture, a subordinate part of a building, as a frieze or cornice; sometimes a molding.
- An individual of a community or society.
All definitions
- The appetites and passions, considered as tempting to sin. Romans 7:5Colossians 3:5
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.